Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.